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1. Tile term ‘malaimandalam’ refers to the 8. Which one of the following temple was not dedicated a) Coromandal coast to Lord Vishnu? b) Malabar coast a) Ranganatha temple at Srirangam c) Pandya coast b) Vithoba temple at Pandharpur d) Konkan coast c) Jagannatha temple at Puri 2. Minakshi, the fish-eyed goddess of the Pandyas of d) Lingaraja temple at Bhuvanesvar Madurai, is identified with 9. Atisha Dipankara and Santarakshita of the early a) Laxmi medieval period were b) Parvati a) Prominent Sanskrit poets c) Sarasvati b) Great mathematicians and astronomers d) Savitri c) Famous Buddhist monks 3. The famous Jaina temples at dilwara were built by d) Hindu religious reformers a) Paramaras 10. Who among the following is referred to as the south b) Chandellas Indian Manu? c) Solankis a) Kamban d) b) Pugalendi 4. Lakshmanasena’s court was adorned by c) Apasthamba a) Dhoyi d) Tirunavakkarasu b) Rajasekhara 11. Which of the following statements about the ayyavole, c) Jayadeva a prominent trade guild of early medieval , are d) Dhananjay true? Choose the answer from the codes below a) It dominated the internal trade of Tamil Nadu. I. A and B b) It controlled the internal trade of deccan. II. B and C c) In the field of external trade it concentrated III. C and D on trade with West Asia. IV. A and C d) Its international connection were mainly with 5. The title of ‘Uttarapathasvamin’ was assumed by South East Asia. a) Dharmapala Select the answer from the codes given below: b) Mihira I. A and B c) Mahindrapala II. B and C d) Prithviraj III. C and D 6. Where did a foreign trader from the Malabar coast IV. A and D establish a nanadeshi-vinnagar temple, devoted to 12. Sthala Mahatmyas were Vishnu, in the 13 th century ad? a) Legends recording local origin of gods a) Angkor in Cambodia b) Officials in-charge of temple management b) Pagan in Burma c) Pilgrimages undertaken by religious- minded c) Borobudur in Sumatra people d) Cairo in Egypt d) Special levy collected by the temple 7. Which Cambodian ruler sent a chariot as a present to 13. The famous sun temple at Konark was build by Rajaraja Chola in AD 1012? a) Prataparudra b) Anantavarman a) Suryavarman I c) Narasimha I b) Suryavarman II

c) Anantavarman d) Narasimha II d) Chandravarman

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14. The famous battle of Waihind (AD 1001) took place c) 1015 between d) 1025 a) Rajaraja Chola I and Vikramaditya IV 22. Which Chola emperor received a letter on golden leaves from the Burmes King, Kyanzittha? b) Bhima I and Mahmud of Ghazni a) Rajaraja I c) Indra III and Mahipala

d) Jailpala and Mahmud of Ghazni b) Rajendra I

15. When did Rajendra Chola I sena his famous naval c) Kulottunga I expedition to the sri Vijaya empire? d) Rajadhiraja a) 1015 23. Who built the famous jagannatha temple at Puri as b) 1020 well as the Lingaraja temple? c) 1025 a) Kapilendra d) 1035 b) Bhanudeva I 16. The famous Uttaramerur inscription belongs to the c) Purushottam reign of d) Anantavarman Choda a) Parantakal 24. Match List I with List II and select the answer using the

b) Parantakal II codes given below the lists.

c) Rajaraja I List I List II d) Rajendra I I. Sulaiman (A) Indra III, Rashtrakuta 17. Jayadeva’s Gita Govinda deals with the cult of II. Al- Masudi (B) Dharmapala, Pala a) Rama III. Marco Polo (C) bhoja, Gurjara Pratipara b) Krishna (D) Radramadevi, Kakatiya c) Siva a) I – B, II – C, III – D d) Sakti b) I – D, II – A, III – B 18. Hiranya-garba was c) I – C, II – A, III – D a) A sacred rite of the marriage ceremony d) I – C, II – D, III – B b) A title conferred on brave soldiers 25. Idangai and valangai were the south Indian c) A tax paid by the people in gold coins a) Social divisions d) The religious ceremony of passing one’s body b) Saivite sects through a golden cow c) Royal ceremonies 19. The term mlechcha-bhoja referred to d) Vaishnavite sects a) Meat 26. The term nanadeshi referred to b) Rice a) Exotic imports from different foreign c) Wheat countries d) Spices b) Official in-charge of the promotion of foreign 20. Which one of the following is incorrectly paired? trade c) Merchants indulged in international trade a) Rajaraja I – Rajakesari d) Travelers from foreign countries b) Rajendra – Pandita Chola I 27. Which one of the following temples was not a royal

c) Kulottunga I – Sungam Tavirtta temple? d) Rajadhiraja – Ahalanka a) Kandariya Mahadeva temple 21. When did the Sailendra ruler of Sri Vijaya build a b) Udayesvara temple Buddhist monastery at Nagapattinam with the c) Rajarajesvara temple permission of the Chola ruler? d) Sun temple a) 1000 b) 1005 HISTORY (TEST SERIES – 04) Page 2

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28. What was the original name of Vishnuvardhana, the 34. Consider the List I and list II hoyasala ruler of Dvarasamudra who was converted to List I list II Vaishnavism from by Ramanuja and who (Dynasties) (founders) constructed the famous Hoyasalesvara temple at I. Yadavas Bhillama Halebid? II. Kakatiyas Beta Raja a) Bittideva III. Eastern Gangas Anantavarman b) Rudraveva IV. Senas Vijayasena c) Kottiga V. Pratiharas d) Aniruddha Which of the above are correctly matched? Select the 29. Arrange the following administrative units of the Chola answer from the codes given below: period in the descending order: a) I, II and III a) Valanadus b) II, III and IV b) Nadus c) I, III, IV and V c) Mandalams d) All of them d) Kurrams 35. The capital of the Hindushahi kingdom was: Choose the answer from the codes given below: a) Peshawar i. A, C, B, D b) Udabhanda ii. C, A, B, D c) Attock iii. B, D, A, C d) Multan iv. D, A, B, C 36. Which Chola emperor, as evident from an inscription, 30. That the bodyguards of the Chola emperors burnt intervened in the dynastic struggle of south east asia in themselves on the funeral pyres of their masters when AD 1068 – 69 ? they died is known to us from a) Rajadhiraja a) Kamban b) Virarajendra b) Sekkilar c) Kulottunga I c) Marko Polo d) Kulottunga d) Nicolo de Co II

31. Pattinams were 37. Which ruler of Cambodia built the famous Angkor Vat?

a) Temple towns a) Anantavarman b) Industrial cities b) Suryavarman I

c) Port cities c) Suryavarman II d) Trade centres d) Chandravarman 32. The annual income of the Rajarajesvara temple in the 38. Rajavamsavalis were form of grain from the land donated to it was worth a) Royal grants to temples about – kgs of gold. b) Royal decrees to guilds of artisans a) 500 c) Royal places and buildings b) 100 d) Chronicles of dynasties c) 250 39. The administration of tankurrams in the Chola period d) 750 was looked after by 33. Who founded dulinism, i.e. the system of nobility a) Urs among the Brahmins and kayasthas of Bengal? b) Nagarams a) Dharmapala c) Sabhas b) Gopala d) Mahasabhas c) Ballalasena d) Vijayasena

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40. Who among the following kalyani Chalukya rules 47. Which one of the following pairs is wrongly matched? preformed paramayoga by drowing himself in the a) Rajasekhara – Karpuramanjari Tungabhadra? b) Dhoyi – Pavanaduta

a) Somesvara I c) Jinasena Suri – d) Sriharsha – Naisadhacharita b) Somesvara II 48. An inscription of the ninth century AD found at c) Vikramaditya III Takuapa on the Isthmus of Siam, mentions d) Vikramaditya IV a) Manigramam 41. Samarangana sutradhara, written by the Pawar ruler b) Ayyavole Bhoja, deals with c) A Trader from Malabar a) Art and architecture d) A Chola ruler b) Music and dance 49. The famous Chidambaram temple in Tamil Nadu is c) Mathematics and astronomy devoted to d) War and peace a) Subrahmanya 42. Issuppu Irappan, who obtained princely privileges, b) Nataraja exemption from all taxes and the grant of the revenue c) Parvati of a traders quarter of the port of Cranganore on the d) Vishnu Malabar coast, was 50. Which one of the following temples is not found at a) an Arab merchant khajuraho? b) a Venetian traveler a) Devi Jagdamba temple c) a Cambodian trader b) Parsvanatha temple d) a Jewish trader c) Nilakantesvara temple 43. which Chola emperor sent a large mission of 72 d) Visvanatha temple merchants to China that removed the wrong 51. Which one of the following kingdoms was referred to impression of the Chinese that the Cholas were as ‘ruhmi’ by the Arab merchant, Sulaiman? tributary princes of the Sri Vijaya empire ? a) Rashtrakuta

a) Rajaraja I b) Pratihara c) Chola b) Rajendra I d) Pala c) Kulottungal 52. Sriharsha, who enjoyed the patronage of both sena d) Vikramachola rules vijayasena and the Gahadvala ruler , 44. Where did Ramanuja serve for long as the head priest wrote a number of works. Which one of the following of a temple? is not attributed to him? a) Tanjore a) Vijyaprasasti b) Srirangam b) Pavanaduta c) Kanchipuram c) Naisadhacharita d) Madurai d) Khandana – khanda – khadya 45. Battle of Takkolam was fought between: 53. Rajendra Chola’s expedition to the Gangetic valley a) Krishna and Parantaka III I resulted in the defeat of a Pala ruler. Who is the Pala b) Anantavarman Choda Ganga and Kulottunga I ruler mentioned in the Tirumalai Inscription of c) Vishnuvardhana and Somesvara III Rajendra I d) Rajaraja I and Vikramaditya IV a) Mahipala I 46. What was the emblem of the imperial Cholas? b) Narayanapala a) Tiger c) Madanapala b) Lion d) Vigrahapala c) Fish d) Horse HISTORY (TEST SERIES – 04) Page 4

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54. Which of the following Sena rulers is credited with b) Yasovarman writing Danasagara and Adbhutasagara ? c) Paramardi a) Lakshmanasena d) Jayasakti b) Vijayasena 62. Who among the following Tomar rulers is credited with c) Ballalasena founding the city of ? d) Samantasena a) Anangpal 55. Who was the first Rashtrakuta rular to successfully b) Vajrata invade ? c) Rudrana

a) Krishna III d) Devaraja 63. The kings of ‘Dahala – mandala’ are popularly known as b) Indra III a) Chandellas of Jejabhukti c) Dhruva b) Gahadvalas of Kanauj d) c) Chauhans of Sakambhari 56. Jinasena, the famous jaina scholar and author of d) Kalachuris of Chedi Adipurana, was at the court of: 64. Which rashtrakuta king built the new capital city of a) Pala rular, Devapala Manyakheta? b) Rashtrakuta rular, I a) Indra c) Pratihara ruler, Mihira Bhoja II d) Solanki ruler, Kumarapala b) Krishna II

57. Which one of the following dynasties described itself as c) Amoghavarsha I the Brahma – Kshatriya? d) Govinda I a) Senas 65. Which is not an important feature of the Chola b) Palas temples? c) Rashtrakutas a) Mandapam or pavilion d) pratiharas b) Sikhara or curvilinear tower 58. Who was the Solanki rular when Mahmud of Ghazni c) Vimana or storey invaded and plundered the Somanatha temple? d) Gopuram or gateway a) 66. Which of the following dynasties did not take part in b) Siddharaja the triangular conflict for the control of kanauj? c) Bhima II a) Palas d) Bhima I b) Pratiharas 59. The celebrated drama, Harikeli Nataka , was written by c) Senas the Chauhan ruler d) Rashtrakutas

a) Prithviraj I 67. Which one of the following Pala ruler is said to have been elected by the people themselves to remove b) Prithviraj III anarchy and establish law and order? c) Vigraharaja III a) Mahipala

d) Somesvara b) Dharmapala

60. Which Gahadvala king imposed a tax, called c) Devapala turushkadanda, on his people d) Gopala

a) Jayachandra 68. Whose court was adorned by Jayadeva and Dhoyi, the th b) famous poets of late 12 century AD?

c) Govindachandra a) Mihira Bhoja d) b) Amoghavarsha I 61. The famous Chaturbhuja temple, dedicated to Vishnu, c) Lakshmanasena was built at Khajuraho, by: d) Dharmapala a) Dhanga

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69. Who was the founder of the Sena dynasty? a) Vatsaraja a) Vijayasena b) Mahipala

b) Lakshmanasena c) Nagabhatta II

c) Ballalasena d) Mihira Bhoja

d) Vinayasena 77. Who was the only Pala ruler to capture and control

70. Under whose leadership did the Pratiharas rise into Kanauj for a while? prominence due to the stiff resistance that they put to a) Mahipala the Arabs of Sind? b) Devapala

a) Mihira Bhoja c) Gopala b) Nagabhatta I d) Dharmapala

c) Nagabhatta II 78. Who was the first Pratihara to capture and occupy d) Vatsaraja kanauj?

71. Which Rashtrakuta rular built the famous kailasa a) Mihira Bhoja temple of Siva at Ellora? b) Nagabhatta I a) Dantidurga c) Vatsaraja b) Amoghavarsha I d) Nagabhatta II

c) 79. Who built the dasavatara and the Ravana-ka-khai at d) Khottiga Ellora?

72. Whose kingdom was visited by al-Masudi, an Arab a) Dantidurga traveler of the early tenth century AD? b) Amoghavarsha I

a) Dharmapala c) Krishna I b) Indra III d) Indra I

c) Gopala 80. Which Rashtrakuta king transferred his capital from

d) Lakshmanasena Ellora to Manyakheta? 73. Which Pala ruler founded the famous Vikramasila a) Indra II University for the Buddhists? b) Krishna a) Mahipala II b) Devapala c) Amoghavarhas I

c) Gopala d) Govinda I

d) Dharmapala 81. Taila, the founder of the chalukyas of kalyani, who are

74. Which Rashtrakuta ruler is credited with defeating and also known as later Chalukyas or western Chalukyas, preventing the incursion of the Arabs of Sind into defeated and overthrew which Rastrakuta ruler? ? a) Khottiga

a) Dhruva b) Karka b) Govinda II c) Krishna III c) Krishna II d) Amoghavarsha III

d) Karka 82. Which Chola ruler was defeated by the Rashtrakuta

75. Sulaiman, and Arab merchant of the ninth century, king, Krishna III, in the famous battle of Takkolam? visited whose kingdom ? a) Aditya a) Pala kingdom of Gopala b) Kulottunga I b) Sena kingdom of Vijayasena c) Rajadhiraja c) Pratihara kingdom of Mihira Bhoja d) Parantaka d) Rashtrakuta kingdom of Dantidurga I 76. Which pratihara ruler had the famous poedt, Rajasekhara, at his court?

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83. Who among the following Cholas is credited with 90. What were tankurrams of the Chola period? conquering the Sri Vijaya empire of the Sailendra rules a) Brahmanical educational institutions by sending a naval expedition? b) Residences of the devadasis of the temples a) Vijayalaya c) Towns and township

b) Rajaraja I d) Village general assemblies 91. Arrange the following pala rulers in the chronological c) Rajendra I order. d) Parantaka I a) Devapala

84. Name the Chola ruler who sent of 72 merchants to b) Gopala China in AD 1077 c) Mahipala a) Kulottunga I d) Dharmapala b) Rajaraja II Select the answer from the codes given below: I. b, d, a, c c) Kulottunga II II. a, c, d, b d) Rajendra II III. c, d, b, a

85. Which Chola king gave permission to the Sailendra IV. d, a, b, c ruler of Sri Vijaya to build a Buddhist vihara at 92. what is the correct chronological sequence of the Nagapattinam? following Pratihara rulers? a) Rajendra I a) Nagabhatta I b) Rajaraja I b) Nagabhatta II c) Rajendra II c) Vatsaraja

d) Rajaraja II d) Mahindrapala

86. Who united the Vengi kingdom with the Chola empire e) Mahipala th in the last quarter of the 12 century? f) Mihira Bhoja a) Aditya Choose the answer from the codes given below:

b) Uttamachola I. d, a, b, c, e, f II. a, b, c, d, e, f c) Parantaka II III. c, a, d, e, f, b d) Kulottunga I IV. a, c, b, f, d, e

87. Arumolivarman was the original name of which of the 93. Which choice gives the correct historical order of the following Chola rulers? following Rashtrakuta kings?

a) Virarajendra a) Dantidurga b) Rajendra I b) Krishna I c) Rajaraja I c) Dhruva

d) Vikramachola d) Amoghavarsha I 88. Which is the tallest of all medieval Indian tamples? e) Indra III a) Kailasa temple at Ellora f) Krishna b) Sun temple at Konark III c) Nilakantesvara temple at Udayapur Select the answer from the codes given below:

d) Brihadeesvara temple at Tanjore I. a, d, c, b, f, e

89. Haribhadra, the famous Buddhist author, was at the II. a, c, b, d, e, f

court of III. c, d, a, e, f, b

a) Devapala IV. d, b, a, f, e, c b) Dharmapala c) Gopala d) Mahipala

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94. Arrange the following chola emperor in tile correct e) Decline of the Roman and Sassanid empires sequence Choose the answer from the codes given below:

a) Rajaraja I I. All of them II. a, b and c b) Parantaka I III. b, c, and d c) Rajendra I IV. a, c, d and e

d) Adityachola 98. which of the following were the main features of the

e) Vijayalaya Nagara style of architecture in early medieval period?

f) Uttamachola a) Square terraces of diminishing size Select the answer from the codes given below: b) Curvilinear tower

I. d, b, a, e, c, f c) Cruciform ground plan

II. b, c, a, f, d, e d) High and richly decorated gateway

III. e, d, b, f, a, c Select the answer from the codes given below:

IV. c, a, b, e, d, f I. All of them

95. what is the ascending order of the following units of II. a, b, and c administration in the Chola period? III. b and c

a) Valanadus IV. b and d

b) Nadus 99. which of the following Orissa type Nagara style temple

c) Mandalams are found at Bhuvanesvar?

d) Kurrams a) Jagannatha temple Select the answer from the codes given below: b) Parasuramesvara temple

I. c, b, a, d c) Muktesvara temple

II. a, b, c, d d) Lingaraja temple

III. d, a, b, c e) Sun temple

IV. d, b, a, c Choose the answer from the codes below:

96. Which of the following dynasties claimed the I. a, b and c Agnikula status? II. b, c and d

a) Pariharas III. a, b, d and e

b) Chandellas IV. a, b, c and d

c) Paramaras 100. Which of the following temple of the Nagara style are

d) Tomars located at Khajuraho?

e) Solankis a) Kandariya mahadeva temple

f) Chauhans b) Devi Jagadamba temple Select the answer from the codes given below: c) Parsvanatha temple

I. All of them d) Nilakantesvara temple

II. a, c, e and f Select the answer from the codes given below:

III. b, c, e and f I. a, b and c

IV. a, b, d and e II. b, c and d

97. Which of the following can be considered as the causes III. a, b, d and e for the decline of trade and commerce in north India IV. a, b, c and d between AD 750 and 1200? a) Availability of little surplus production b) Emergence of a wide variety of local weights and measures c) Decrease in the use of coins d) Unstable political conditions and constant fighting

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1 (b) 21 (b) 41 (a) 61 (b) 81 (b)

2 (b) 22 (c) 42 (d) 62 (a) 82 (d)

3 (c) 23 (d) 43 (c) 63 (d) 83 (c)

4 (d) 24 (c) 44 (b) 64 (c) 84 (a)

5 (a) 25 (a) 45 (a) 65 (b) 85 (b)

6 (b) 26 (c) 46 (a) 66 (c) 86 (d)

7 (a) 27 (d) 47 (c) 67 (d) 87 (c)

8 (d) 28 (a) 48 (a) 68 (c) 88 (d)

9 (c) 29 (b) 49 (b) 69 (a) 89 (b)

10 (c) 30 (c) 50 (c) 70 (b) 90 (c)

11 (b) 31 (c) 51 (d) 71 (c) 91 (a)

12 (a) 32 (a) 52 (b) 72 (b) 92 (d)

13 (c) 33 (c) 53 (a) 73 (d) 93 (b)

14 (d) 34 (d) 54 (c) 74 (a) 94 (c)

15 (c) 35 (b) 55 (c) 75 (c) 95 (d)

16 (a) 36 (b) 56 (b) 76 (b) 96 (b)

17 (b) 37 (c) 57 (a) 77 (d) 97 (a)

18 (d) 38 (d) 58 (d) 78 (c) 98 (c)

19 (c) 39 (b) 59 (c) 79 (a) 99 (b)

20 (d) 40 (a) 60 (b) 80 (c) 100 (d)

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